Rice vs Pomona

nostalgicwisdom
Sat, 24 Dec 2011 18:03:51 +0000

Go to Pomona, please; after all RateMyProfessors.com says it’s better!!

-You’re misunderstanding my post. RateMyProfessors is just one indicator out of the many there are. It’s clear by the numbers that Pomona has the better teachers. 3.5 average vs 3 average is a sizable gap. The fact that those statistics come from students themselves gives them much more merit than any ranking could.

Oh, and, nostalgicwidsom: please use your wisdom and visit the thread where it’s discussed how Rice’s ED admit rate was, in fact, less than 25% this year.
-I don’t care for your hypothetical driven data. Give me the cold numbers, and back them up. Given Pomona’s ED rate last year was 22% vs Rice’s 30%, it’s nearly impossible that Rice would have a lower ED rate than Pomona, especially when both schools saw nearly the same sizable boost in their ED pool.

There were 1,231 ED applicants to Rice. How many at Pomona? 304. Yes, a 33% “boom” from last year’s record of 228. In a year, nearly 80 whole people learned about Pomona. Congratulations!

-Absolute numbers don’t matter when you look at the size of the school. Pomona is MUCH smaller than Rice is. A 33% increase is a 33% increase that WILL shrink the acceptance rate even more than it was last year, around 13%. While Rice may have that same increase, the fact that it had a 19% rate last year means it won’t overcome Pomona’s acceptance rate.

Honestly, you’re being fanatical about Rice and completely undermining Pomona. Why not do your research? Both schools are fantastic and it’s not like this argument is linear.